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John Locke
Locke said that brain was a blank slate at birth and is formed as we experience life. -
charles Darwin
Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory says that humans that humans current psychological state comes for inheritable changes -
Willheim Wundt
Wundt was the founder of structuralism. -
G. Stanley Hall
Hall created the American Psychological Association and was the first president -
Biological Perspective
The biological perspective says that all behaviors, thoughts, and emotional come from a biological level. -
Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Pavolv discovered that there are some reflex hard wired in living things. -
Sigmund Freed
Sigmund freed was the founder of Pyschoanalysis and he believed that our childhoods shaped our future and personalities -
Mary Whiton Calkins
Calkins believed that the conscious self should be a bigger part of psychology -
Edward Titchener
Edward Titchener was known for further developing the study of structuralism which focuses on the elements coming together to make the whole. -
John Watson
Watson focused on the external actions and reactions of people to give him further insight on human actions. -
Structuralism
Structuralism was created by Edward Titchener and Wilhem Wundt in 1879. -
Max Wertheimer
Max Wertheimer was one of the founders of the Gestalt Psychology which allows people to be looked at as a whole when figuring their motivations and such. -
Jena Piaget
Piaget contributed his cognitive development theory which explains how children develop intellectually through childhood. -
Behavioral Perspective
The behavioral perspective says that all behaviors are based on outcomes of past interactions. -
Erik Erikson
Erik Erikson created the stages of psychosocial development which says there are 8 stages that people go through in their lives. -
B. F. Skinner
Skinner said that on the most basic level human behavior worked on a reward and consequences basis. -
Psychodynamic Perspective
The psychodynamic perspective focuses on the development of self motivations and sense of self. -
Gestalt
Gestalt psychology says that we should look at the cognitive functions and behaviors as a whole as oppose to looking at it peice by piece. -
Sociocultural Perspective
The sociocultural perspective that examines how behaviors are affected by the social and cultural environment of the individual. -
Humanistic Perspective
The human perspectives focuses on aspects of the personality that make them uniquely human. -
Cognitive Perspective
The cognitive perspective deals with mental functions like memory, intelligence, perspective, problem solving, and learning. -
Evolutionary Perspective
Th evolutionary perspective that our personalities have changed to to traits that benefit us best like natural selection. -
Carl Rogers
Rogers that humans one true motive in life is to achieve self actualization.